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- It should go without saying that i do not necessarily agree with every opinion, author, or publication listed herein; user's scholastic/journalistic integrity is of course implied






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A Few Portals For The Politically Inclined

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Research and Law
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/


The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy at Yale University
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/


The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University
http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/index.php


Index of historic documents of the United States at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law
http://www.law.ou.edu/


The American Presidency Project at UCSB
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/


Constitutional law at Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/


The Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA
http://millercenter.org/


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University
http://trac.syr.edu/


Epidemiologic Information on Bioterrorism at UCLA Department of Epidemiology (last update October 2003)
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/bioterrorism.html


The Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-gun-policy-and-research/


The Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/


The Social Science Research Network
http://www.ssrn.com/


The U.S. Census Bureau (use stats at your own risk)
http://www.census.gov/


The U.S. Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/index.html


The U.S. Government Accountability Office
http://www.gao.gov/


The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (use stats at your own risk)
http://www.bls.gov/


History and Culture at the National Park Service
http://www.cr.nps.gov/toolsfor.htm


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
http://www.noaa.gov/







Think Tanks
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Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/


The Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/







Journalism
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* * On The Home Front * *


NPR
http://www.npr.org/


Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/


Politico
http://www.politico.com/


The Hill
http://thehill.com/


Columbia Journalism Review
http://www.cjr.org/


The Center For Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/


ProPublica
http://www.propublica.org/


PBS: Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/






* * Global News * *


The Guardian (UK)
http://www.guardiannews.com/


The Globe And Mail (CA)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/


der Spiegel (DE)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/


Ha' aretz (IL)
http://www.haaretz.com/


Y Net (IL)
http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3083,00.html


Al-Jazeera (QA)
http://www.aljazeera.com/


Ma'an News Agency (PS)
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx


Al Arabiya (Middle East)
http://english.alarabiya.net/


DAWN (PK)
http://dawn.com/


The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/


Asia Times
http://www.atimes.com/


The Epoch Times (US-CN)
http://www.theepochtimes.com/


Xinhua (CN)
http://www.xinhua.org/english/


Russia Today (RU)
http://rt.com/news/line/


UPI - United Press International
http://www.upi.com/


GlobalResearch.ca
http://www.globalresearch.ca/





* * Not Quite Big-Media * *


Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/


Salon
http://www.salon.com/


The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/


Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/


CNN - International Edition
http://edition.cnn.com/


FP Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/


The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/


The Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/







Tech and Financial News
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Wired
http://www.wired.com/


ars technica (Tech Policy)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/


Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/home/uk


Zero Hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/


Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/


Seeking Alpha
http://seekingalpha.com/


Max Keiser
http://maxkeiser.com/







Watchdogs, and Congressional Bill Tracking
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USASpending.gov
http://usaspending.gov/


Congress.org
http://www.congress.org/news/


OpenCongress
http://www.opencongress.org/


ThatsMyCongress
http://thatsmycongress.com/


GovTrack
http://www.govtrack.us/


MapLight
http://maplight.org/


National Freedom of Information Coalition
http://www.nfoic.org/







Electronic Privacy

(NOTE: visit these websites at your own discretion.)
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EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://epic.org/


Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/







Civil Liberties & Humanitarian Law

(NOTE: visit these websites at your own discretion.)
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ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/


ACLU National Security Project
http://www.aclu.org/national-security


Bill Of Rights Defense Committee
http://www.bordc.org/


Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/


International Committee of the Red Cross: Humanitarian Law Sheet
http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/overview-war-and-law.htm


Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/


B'tselem: the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
http://www.btselem.org/


Breaking The Silence: Israeli Soldiers Talk About the Occupied Territories
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/


Israeli Dissidents: Notes From a Slippery Slope
http://kedem.info/dissidents/


LFNKR: Life Funds for North Korean Refugees
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/


Americans For Immigrant Justice
http://aijustice.org/


Reporters Without Borders
http://en.rsf.org/


Eye On Hate Radio (Web Blog)
http://eyeonhateradio.wordpress.com/








National Security/Intelligence

(NOTE: visit these websites at your own discretion.)
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Recently declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (Electronic Reading Room)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/


The National Security Archive at GWU
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/


FBI: The Vault
http://vault.fbi.gov/


MDA
http://www.mda.mil/


USAF Fact Sheet
http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/index.asp


NSA
http://www.nsa.gov/


FEMA
http://www.fema.gov/


DHS - WARNING: ALL TRAFFIC IS MONITORED
http://www.dhs.gov/


Homeland Security Studies & Analysis Institute
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/forum


International Institute for Strategic Studies
http://www.iiss.org/


FAS Strategic Security Blog
http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/


NTI Nuclear Threat Initiative
http://www.nti.org/


RAND
http://www.rand.org/


UCS Nuclear Weapons & Global Security
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_weapons_and_global_security/


IHS - Jane's
http://www.janes.com/products/janes/index.aspx


Defense Industry Daily
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/


The Jamestown Foundation (take with a grain of salt)
http://www.jamestown.org/


Wired: Danger Room
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/


Wired: Threat Level
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/


SinoDefence
http://www.sinodefence.com/


Chinese Military Power at the Commonwealth Institute (last update 2008; now defunct)
http://www.comw.org/cmp/


Cakra 401 Submarine (don't ask how i came across THIS one)
http://cakra401.blogspot.com/


Defense at RIA Novosti
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/


agentura.ru (may be currently inaccessible due to USG):
Not available at present time


warfare.ru:
http://warfare.ru/











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